Bob and Cheryl are joined by and Willyn Webb: Author, Counselor at Alternative HS having success with cells in a district where it's banned Lisa Nielson: Tech Innovation Manager in NYC and creator of The Innovative Educator Blog

Advocate for students using the tools they already own!

Here is part of the agenda with some great links:

* Why do you think that cells are a tool necessary for combating the digital divide?

o Ubiqutous (Lisa)

o No cost to schools (Willyn)

* But how can you recommend cell phones when most schools ban them? (Is it still a city-wide ban in NY?) Yes it

o How long has this been in effect? History? (Lisa)

+ Since about 2007

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“I lost something very important to me”

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# I teach teachers to do this, which was a story in NYC (Lisa)

* New York Sun -Despite School Cell Phone Ban, Course Sees Them as Aid - May 16, 2008

* UPI - New York teachers learn cell phone lessons - May 16, 2008

* Million Campaign Consulting at the NYC DOE

# Increase communication with students and parents outside the school day (Willyn)

* How can you use support research based strategies with cell phones?

o We use Marzano's 9 research based strategies and come up with ways cell phones can enrich each idea

o a variety of activities produce nonlinguistic representations such as creating graphic representation, making physical models, generating mental pictures, drawing pictures and pictographs, and engaging in kinesthetic activity. Because most new cell phones come with a camera and are able to send picture messages, our focus is on utilizing the pictorial capabilities of the cell phone. Many cell phones even record video, which will also be a wonderful nonlinguistic enhancement incorporating both pictorial and kinesthetic activity. Elaboration of knowledge through cell phone technologies, such as sound and pictures will increase student achievement.

o Flickr is great for sharing pictures with the use of cell phones. A slideshow is created for each project without any effort from the teacher.

o Googlevoice is a wonderful tool for encouraging students learning through sound.

The Chat:

19:16:11 bobsprankle -> Room 1: hi lisa!

19:17:57 Lisa Nielsen -> Room 1: Oh, hi.

19:21:09 cheryloakes~ -> Room 1: Evening, just getting settled.

19:21:41 bobsprankle -> Room 1: hi!

19:26:51 cheryloakes~ -> Room 1: welcome

19:32:09 cheryloakes~ -> Room 1: Welcome

19:32:21 cheryloakes~ -> Room 1: Hello Brin

19:32:47 brinmullnl -> Room 1: Hey. Spelled my name wrong. Yea me.

19:33:07 cheryloakes~ -> Room 1: you can get another chance!!

19:33:27 bobsprankle -> Room 1: ji all

19:33:31 bobsprankle -> Room 1: *hi

19:34:26 cheryloakes~ -> Room 1: there we go Brian!

19:34:33 cheryloakes~ -> Room 1: Thanks for joining us.

19:34:40 RobZ -> Room 1: This is audio-only, correct?

19:34:50 cheryloakes~ -> Room 1: This is only audio and the chat room.

19:35:06 cheryloakes~ -> Room 1: Yeah Peggy, you are late:-), we were just asking where you were.

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